• @pozbo
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    221 year ago

    Been using brave for a few years on mobile and desktop.

    They uses to give away BAT, but they have refined their system to not give any unless you spend hours jumping through hoops and linking shoddy Chinese financial apps and crypto wallets.

    I still use it for the privacy, but after reading this I will likely switch back to firefox or another chrome based browser.

    • Jeom
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      101 year ago

      decided to give the bat thing a go, had to sign up for this crypto thing. that is the only time I’ve ever been apart of a security breach

      • @pozbo
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        I’ve had nothing but issues, first things were good, then you had to make an Uphold account. Couldn’t do that from my country, then account limit issues. You can only link your wallet to 4 devices and if you reset your phone it counted as adding a device. Locked me out of my wallet after 1 phone upgrade and replacing the cpu on my desktop.

        Currently you have to set some sort of account overseer to collect BAT. I still get the ads, but they haven’t sent a payout in months.

        All in all I estimate about 450-550 BAT I “earned” watching their ads over the last 3 or 4 years was never paid out.

      • @[email protected]
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        341 year ago

        Firefox for Android lets you install ublock origin as an extension. I absolutely refuse to use any other mobile browser.

      • 1ird
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        You can use AdGuard on Android to block ads device wide. You can also install uBlock origin in Firefox Mobile.

        I’m not sure for iOS

      • @sonofbattles
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        41 year ago

        Mull. It’s FOSS (Free open source software). It should be on the official f-droid repo but I believe the divestos repo pushes updates faster since they’re the devs of the project.

      • myxi
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        Kiwi Browser and Yandex Browser lets you use any Chromium extension, and Firefox Nightly, with some hacks, lets you use any Firefox addon available on the webstore.

        Firefox’s stable version also comes with uBlock.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          The hacky extension workaround also works for Firefox Beta now if you don’t want to deal with as many glitches that Nightly might have.

          • ijeff
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            31 year ago

            Fennec on F-Droid is the best for not having to resort to beta or nightly builds. However, none of the Firefox options let you sideload your own extensions like Kiwi.

              • ijeff
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                Fair enough! Definitely give Fennec a try. I switch between it and Kiwi myself (the latter for a few paywall extensions and PWA).

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          Do not use Kiwi Browser. It’s based on an extremely out of date version of chromium and therefore very vulnerable.

      • @barbecue_sprinkler
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        21 year ago

        Yeah, vivaldi. Vivaldi is pretty neat, it has ad/tracker blocker. It also allows you to create multiple tab groups so your can categorise tabs and they don’t get all clutterd. It’s also a chromium browser. It doesnt do anything on fingerprinting though, but i don’t know if brave does that.

      • @pozbo
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        11 year ago

        A few, DDG was popular for a while but I recall reading they sold out recently?

      • Nioxic
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        11 year ago

        Yes

        Firefox has extension support on android

        edge has built in adblocker

        samsung browser has built in adblocker

        not sure about iphone…

    • Avid Amoeba
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      21 year ago

      What privacy? You do realize the browser has access to all the data it renders right?

      • @pozbo
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        Mostly not sharing with ISPs, and blocking trackers, cookies and some ads natively is nice too.

        • Avid Amoeba
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          Right but you also have to trust that the browser doesn’t send your info to its mothership. Because unlike cookies, trackers and such, it has access to all your data.

          • @pozbo
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            11 year ago

            I mean it’s refaced chromium, isn’t the mothership google?

            Doesn’t google already know what shade of pink/brown my asshole is?